Agenda
Our Gartner experts, who are at the top of their fields, helped attendees address their most critical challenges. These key topics kickstarted conversations around priorities and initiatives so that attendees could tackle what was most important to them.
Enterprises are more than ever challenged to rethink business models as they embrace disruptive practices, future-oriented trends and technologies, forcing them into fundamental change. This track explores the balance between ensuring operational stability and embracing these disruptive influences.
This track explores how to meet your organization’s stakeholder and business needs for cloud and new infrastucture design by creating and developing a strategy and roadmap of how to enable and exploit cloud and infrastructure modernization to demonstrate value.
The anywhere business is increasingly distributed, fragmented and complex, creating a management and operational nightmare. This track focuses on how operations teams maintain, automate and support centralized, distributed, and IT operations practices and technologies.
The demands on leaders are constantly changing. This track focuses on the changing face of I&O, the people and culture issues, the rapidly developing skill and competency requirements, and the evolving role of the leader.
This track explores how to plan a digital workplace strategy and DEX improvement/UX development that caters to the needs of an agile and multidimensional workforce.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Masaki Suzuki, VP Analyst, Gartner
Web3 and NFTs/digital tokens have become hot topics with the advent of the Metaverse. How will these technologies change the future? While societal changes are not happening, IT leaders responsible for technology must understand and keep their eyes on the trends. Gartner will discuss what IT leaders need to know about Web3 and digital tokens.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 03:50 PM - 04:20 PM JST
Padraig Byrne, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Data centers are quickly evolving and morphing. New trends and initiatives focusing on sustainability, infrastructure platforms, automation, and modernization are enabling the delivery of great business value - faster and better than ever before. This session will enable IT leaders to develop data center strategies and present its future evolution to executive leaders, peers and teams.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 05:25 PM - 05:55 PM JST
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Companies need to acquire a new mindset to prepare for the new era (New World) that will come in and beyond 2030. It takes a considerable amount of time to acquire a new mindset, so it is important to have the opportunity to learn and think repeatedly.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM JST
Masaki Suzuki, VP Analyst, Gartner
With the solid tailwind for digital business initiatives, most organizations in Japan are tackling the obstacles to beat them. In this session, Gartner describes the current state of Japanese organizations in their journey, and suggests a direction in which to move faster for IT leaders.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 02:55 PM - 03:25 PM JST
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Metaverse is a "fully digital" world that goes beyond the conventional virtual space and digitizes the real world. From now on, toward 2030, this New World will bring destruction and new creation to all people. In this session, we will make recommendations on how users should prepare for the megatrends that will occur in 2030.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM JST
Nathan Hill, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Yurika Nagashima, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Takeshi Ikeda, VP Analyst, Gartner
Infrastructure and operations face stresses from inside and out. Dramatic global shifts and talent shortages intensify the ever-present need to accelerate innovation. I&O leaders must rewrite their future and set their sights on a new horizon. Learn how to leverage intelligent automation, embrace platform engineering, deploy multicloud operations and intertwine I&O throughout your organizational fabric.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM JST
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Many companies are starting to take a step from discussing the cloud to putting it into practice. However, many are just extensions of traditional on-premises. Meanwhile, hyperscaler technology is expanding to everything, including on-premises. This session will sort out rapidly changing cloud trends and provide advice to users.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 03:50 PM - 04:20 PM JST
Takuma Yamamoto, Director Analyst, Gartner
Unfortunately, it cannot be said that the cloud will stop. The cloud is becoming more and more influential in corporate activities, considering the infrastructure availability, data protection, and site recovery mechanisms according to the importance of the business.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 05:25 PM - 05:55 PM JST
Masaki Suzuki, VP Analyst, Gartner
While many enterprises are concerned about the use of file servers and cloud storage, the market trend is moving away from storage and its management towards exploiting the information for business context. In this session, Gartner discusses the current trends of Japanese enterprises regarding file servers, document management, workflow, automation and the future.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 05:25 PM - 05:55 PM JST
Wataru Katsurashima, VP Analyst, Gartner
As the momentum for container adoption grows, companies are beginning to ask how they should address container security. Enterprises need to understand what are the specific risks of container adoption in parallel with the consideration of container adoption, not as an afterthought security. This session will provide the first step for enterprise users who are trying to tackle container security.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM JST
Gavin Tay, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital transformation requires expansion of computing to the edge. Edge computing requirements, use cases and technology choices are highly diverse, and edge sprawl is a very real problem. Enterprises need to be proactive, and build a strategy that accelerates and powers successful deployments and future extensibility through discovery, consistent tools and processes, and evolving best practices.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 12:40 PM - 01:10 PM JST
Takeshi Ikeda, VP Analyst, Gartner
Though the internet and public clouds are widespread, the anytime anywhere distributed enterprise is becoming an actual option for both customers and employees. anywhere. In this environment, the nature of the network is changing dramatically. In this session, we will discuss some of the key trends in networks that must be secure, brought about by trends such as Zero Trust and SASE.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 12:40 PM - 01:25 PM JST
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Mainframe is still an important system. However, the situation is becoming more critical year by year, with vendors announcing withdrawal and aging human resources. What should users do with mainframes? In this session, analysts answer questions from users.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 04:35 PM - 05:05 PM JST
Takuma Yamamoto, Director Analyst, Gartner
The number of systems and the amount of data that can be targets of ransomware is enormous. On the other hand, considering the workload and cost, it is difficult to decide where and how to take measures. In this session, we will consider efficient backup measures from the perspective of ransomware.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 04:35 PM - 05:05 PM JST
Wataru Katsurashima, VP Analyst, Gartner
In this session, I&O leaders will learn about the business impact of containers and K8s and provide an opportunity to get to know the basics and reconsider current infrastructure approaches and the future.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 05:20 PM - 05:50 PM JST
Siddharth Shetty, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
During this conference you will learn how I&O leaders have a critical role to play in transforming and enhancing their capabilities to power the anywhere business. I&O leaders will need to empower every member of their organization to achieve their potential by prioritizing certain focus areas.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 03:50 PM - 04:20 PM JST
Kevin Ji, VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders have little time, skills and budget to track emerging trends and the full impact of those on infrastructure and operations. I&O leaders should use this research to identify which of the top trends are most likely to impact their organization and implement effective tactics to respond. Trends to be covered include just-in-time infrastructure, management confluence, and career ladders to career lattices.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 05:25 PM - 05:55 PM JST
Manjunath Bhat, VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders struggle to confidently find, implement, and sustain automation initiatives that move beyond low-hanging fruits to continuous and resilient returns on investments. This session will use case studies from progressive I&O functions to provide practical guidance for creating an adaptive automation approach that organically grows, connects and adjusts to changing conditions, and creates business value.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 12:40 PM - 01:10 PM JST
Kevin Ji, VP Analyst, Gartner
Infrastructure and operations leaders frequently see automation as the end-state, rather than the enabler of value. This session will challenge the ways in which automation is viewed and offer practical guidance on how to guide your automation journey to business value.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 02:55 PM - 03:25 PM JST
Padraig Byrne, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session establishes a practical segmentation of AIOps solutions and then builds practical advice on how to leverage each class of solutions to capture realistic value from AIOps. This session is primarily targeted at I&O technical professionals that do not have excess data science resources and need to find practical ways to extract the value of AI within IT Operations.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 04:35 PM - 05:05 PM JST
Manjunath Bhat, VP Analyst, Gartner
Organizations are struggling with consistency, reliability and scaling. Effective organizational learning can help mitigate these challenges plus bring many other benefits. Over the past eight years, clients have shared with us what they have implement, what works and what does not. In this session, we will share pragmatic guidance that can help with the creation, transfer, retention and unlearning of knowledge.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM JST
Siddharth Shetty, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The dynamic nature of business requires leaders to rethink how to organize their teams for the work of today and tomorrow. We discuss how these requirements affect existing team structures and which functions need to evolve. Several options of organization structures exist, and we discuss the benefits and limitations of each.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Apoorva Chhabra, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Employee burnout can lead to high levels of absenteeism, turnover and low productivity. Use Gartner’s S.A.N.E. framework to identify and address the underlying triggers.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 03:05 PM - 04:35 PM JST
Kaoru Yano, Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will provide new experience for communication, facilitation, and posture which are required in the digital innovation.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM JST
Nathan Hill, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Infrastructure and Operations leaders have to be active contributors to their organization's digital success. They must deliver growth by helping to scale digital initiatives throughout their enterprise and enable platform-led agility to support the distributed enterprise. This presentation will help in your I&O planning for 2023 and beyond.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 02:55 PM - 03:25 PM JST
Apoorva Chhabra, Principal Analyst, Gartner
To lead the organization in an era of frequent, disruptive changes, executive leaders must evolve their role from practicing traditional change management to becoming change leaders. Learn how to set an inspiring course and co-create a path forward that engages the entire organization in the change journey.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM JST
Takeshi Ikeda, VP Analyst, Gartner
While face-to-face communication within and outside the company has long been limited by COVID-19, the use of tools such as Unified Communications and Web Conferencing, which can be used from anywhere, is expanding. In this session, we will discuss the various challenges in face-to-face communication today that continue to be explored and the technologies that can solve them.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Gavin Tay, VP Analyst, Gartner
Demand for guidance on how to improve the digital employee experience (DEX) has grown exponentially over the past two years. In this session we will provide the top 10 ways to improve DEX.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:35 PM JST
Eri Hariu, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
IT literacy of employees is an important factor in the digital workplace transformation progress. The employees in the organization need to utilize IT to create a truly digital workplace. How can organizations improve the IT literacy of their digital workforce? This roundtable discusses the required skills for business users and how IT leaders should work on them to improve IT literacy and gain new insights into how they will work in the future.
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 / 02:15 PM - 02:35 PM JST
Hironori Hayashi, Director Analyst, Gartner
Companies were forced to change traditional office-oriented workstyles now. While employees prefer to work remotely with benefits such as improved work-life balance, employers started to recognize challenges such as less frequent communication and loss of engagement. In this session, we will propose how to tackle those challenges with real-world examples based Gartner's recent research.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM JST
Hironori Hayashi, Director Analyst, Gartner
Losing in-person communication due to remote work under the pandemic affected employee engagement. On the other hand, employees enjoyed improved work-life balance and more time to concentrate. Thus, organizations are exploring a suitable design of hybrid work which considers ratio of employees working remotely or infrastructure sustaining this workstyle.
This session explores what role the IT leaders should play to maintain employee engagement.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 12:40 PM - 01:10 PM JST
Eri Hariu, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Hybrid work (remote work and office work) has continued in Japanese organizations. Many organizations have embraced this as a matter of course, bringing with it the opportunity to fundamentally rethink the way they work in a step-advanced way. This session analyses how to advance digital workplace transformation for future hybrid work.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 02:05 PM - 02:25 PM JST
Hironori Hayashi, Director Analyst, Gartner
Companies were forced to change traditional office-oriented workstyles now. While employees prefer to work remotely with benefits such as improved work-life balance, employers started to recognize challenges such as less frequent communication and loss of engagement. In this session, we will propose how to tackle those challenges with real-world examples based Gartner's recent research.
Wednesday, 14 December, 2022 / 02:55 PM - 03:40 PM JST
Kaoru Yano, Director Analyst, Gartner
IT Leaders are facing many security challenges such as policy management, identity and access management, data security, detection and response, security awareness, etc. This session will provide best practices and recommendations through interactive Q&A with an analyst and audience.